Tub-fitting.



' PATENTED SEPT. 4, 1906. P. GONNOLLY. TUB FITTING. APPLICATION FILED 1356.18. 1902.

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No. 830,053. PATENTBD SEPTA, 1906.

P. GONNOLLY.

TUB FITTING. APPLICATION FILED 19110.18, 1902.

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UNITED STATES PATRICK CONN OLLY,

OF NE'W YORK, N. Y.

TUB-FITTING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

Application filed December 18, 1902. Serial No. 135,788.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, PATRICK CONNOLLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New. York city, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tub-Fittings, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved fitting for forming hot and cold water connections and for providing a wringer-support for laundry or other tubs.

It is usual to form some of the better grades of laundry-tubs, such as porcelain tubs, of separate sections, which are set up together end to end to form compartmenttubs.

The present invention has been made especially with the idea of providing a strong and convenient fitting for forming the hot and cold water connections for such tubs and for providing a support for the attachment of a wringer.

A full understanding of the invention can best be given by a detailed description of preferred constructions embodying various features thereof, and such a description will now be given in connection with the accompanying drawings, showing such preferred constructions.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view, partly broken away, showing two tub-sections set together to form a compartmenttub and provided with a preferred fitting made in accordance with my invention. Figs. 2 and 3 are sections taken on lines 2 and 3, respectively, of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section similar to Fig. 3, but showing a modified form of fitting. Fig. 5 is a section on line 5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal sectional detail view of part of the fitting shown in Figs. 4 and 5. F g. 7 shows, partly in section, a hot and cold water connection without the wringer-sup port attachment.

Referring to the drawings and first to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, 1O 10 represent two tubsections set up end to end to form compartment-tubs in the usual manner. Resting on the upper edges of the adjacent tub ends 11 11 is a bearing-plate 12, which is secured in position by means of tie-rods 13, extending to rods or plates 14, the ends of which bear against the under side of the tub-sections, said tie-rods being connected to the bearingplate 1 2, preferably by having screw-threaded ends entering screw-sockets in the under side of the bearing-plate. Mounted on the rear portion of the bearing-plate 12 is a casing 20, which forms a hot and cold water connection, and on the forward portion of the bearingplate is a support 21 of suitable shape to have a clothes-wringer attached to it. The casing and support are preferably of substantially the same cross-section and together form a rib extending longitudinally of the bearingplate. The bearing-plate, casing 20, and support 21 may be of any suitable material and the casing and support may be secured to the bearing-plate in any suitable manner, but, as shown in Figs. 1 to 3, the bearingplate and the rib forming the casing and the wringer-support are formed of a single metal casting, and this constitutes a feature of the invention. The bearing-plate preferably slopes downwardly on each side from the central rib, so as to form a water-shed, and

the side edges are preferably turned downward to form flanges 22 to extend down on either side of the tubwalls. It will be seen that the bearing-plate forms, in effect, supportingwings extending laterally from the casing and support. As shown in Fig. 3, the casing 20 is provided at the rear end with inlet-openings for connection to supply-pipes 23 and 24, and is divided interiorly by a partition 25 into two compartments with which the inletopenings respectively communicate, and is 'provided on each side of the casing with outlet-openings from each compartment for receiving hot and cold water cocks 26 and 27, respectively.

Figs. 4 to 6 show a modified construction in which the bearing-plate 12 is formed of wood and the casing 20, forming the hot and cold water connection, is secured to the top of the bearing-plate by means of screws extending through lugs 30 on the side of the casing. As shown in these figures also, the casing is not extended to form the wringersupport; but a separate rib is secured on the front portion of the bearing-plate to serve as a wringer-support. This rib may be formed of any suitable material; but the drawings indicate it as formed of a metal casting se cured to the bearing-plate by screws passing through lugs 32, extending from the sides of the rib and as having a socket at its rear end for receiving the end of the casing 20. The casing 20, as shown in these figures, has the partition 25 by which it is divided into hot and cold water compartments arranged to extend from the bottom to the top wall thereof, and has the inlet-openings in the bottom wall to receive inlet-pipes 36 and 37, which extend upward between the ends of the tub sections. Such an arrangement of the partition, inlet-openings, and supply-pipes may of course be equally well used with a con struction otherwise, as shown in Figs. 1 to 3.

Fig. 7 shows a bearing-plate carrying a casing for forming hot and cold water connections, but without the wringer-support. When the wringer-support is not provided on the bearing-plate, the bearing-plate may be shortened, as shown in this figure.

It will be understood that the invention is not to be limited to the exact construction and arrangement of parts as shown in the drawings for the purpose of illustrating the invention and to which the foregoing description has been mainly confined, but that the invention includes various changes and modifications therein within the claims.

The construction shown and described in this application embodies subject-matter relating to tub-fittings for forming hot and cold water connections described and claimed in my copending application, Serial No. 135,789, filed December 18, 1902, and therefore not claimed in this application.

-What I claim is 1. A fittin for forming connections, as for hot and col water for compartment-tubs, formed of a casing having lateral supportingwings for resting on the tub-walls, said casing having inlet-openings and being divided into compartments with which the inlet-openings respectively communicate, and having outlet-openings in each side of the casing from. each compartment, substantially as de scribed.

2. A fittin for forming connections, as for hot and col water, for compartment-tubs, formed of a casing having lateral supporting Wings for resting on the tub-walls, said casing having inlet-openings and being divided into compartments with which the inlet-openings respectively communicate, and having an outlet-'openingfrom each compartment, sub stantially as described.

3. A fitting for compartment-tubs comprising a casin and a wringer-support extending forwar from the casing, said casing and support having lateral supportin -wings for resting on the tub-walls, and sai casing having tially as described.

4:. A fitting for compartment-tubs comprising a casing, and a wringer-support ex tending forward from the casing, said casing and wringer-support having lateral supporting-wings'for resting on the tubwalls, said wings having sloping top sides to form waterinlet and outlet openings, substanand said casing having inlet andoutsheds,

let openings, substantially as described.

5. A fitting for compartment-tubs comprising a casing, and a wringer-support extending forward from the casing and formed integral therewith, said casing and wringer j support having integral lateral supportingwings for resting on the tub-walls, and said casing having inlet and outlet openings, sub stantially as described.

6. A fitting for compartment-tubs com prising a bearing-plate adapted to rest on the tubwalls, and means for securing said plate in position, and a casing carried by said plate having inlet and outlet openings, and a wringer-support carried by said plate, sub- Y stantially as described.

7. A fitting for compartment-tubs comprising a bearing-plate adapted to rest on the tub-walls, and means for securing said plate in position, a casing carried by said plate having inlet and outlet openings, and a wringer-support carried by said plate, said casing and support forming a rib extending longitudinally of the plate, substantially as described.

8. A fitting for compartment-tubs comprising a bearing-plate adapted to rest on contiguous walls of adjacent tub-sections,

and means for securing said plate in position,

and a casing carried by said plate having inlet-openings, and being divided into compartments with which the inlet-openings re spectively communicate, and having outletopenings from each compartment on each side of the casing, substantially as described.

9. The combination with a compartmenttub formed of separate tubsections, of a casing and a wringer-support extending forward from the casing, said casing and lateral supporting wringer-support having wings for resting on contlguous walls of adjacent tubsections, and said casing having inlet and outlet openings, and means for securing said casing in position, substantially as described.

10. A fitting for compartment-tubs formed of a casing having two inlet-openings in its bottom wall, a partition dividing the interior of the casing into two compartments with which the inlet-openings respectively communicate, and having in each side wall ofthe casing an outlet-opening from each of said compartments, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PATRICK CONNOLLY.

Witnesses: Y

A. L. KENT, W. H. KENNEDY.

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